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l v@1t-itch gisten @stent @Hirn JOSIAH H. NICHOLS, OF NEW BRITAIN, CQNNECTICUT,l ASSIGNOR T0 i HIMSELF, A. H. NORTH, AND G. LUN T.

Letters Patent No. 70,352, dated October 29, 1867.

IMPROVMENT IN MANUFACTURING KNIVES AND FORKS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it `known that I,AJOSIAH H. NICHOLS, of New Britain, county ot,Hartfortl, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain'new and useful Improvements in the Mode or 4Process of Manufacturing Knives and Forks; and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use thc same, I will proceed to describe it by referring to the drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts iu each of the figures.

The object of this invention is to cheapen the manufacture, and produce a strong, durable, and more perfect article of table cutlery. In the accompanying drawings- Figure lis a side view of a knife-blade, and a part of a concave-convex handle, as formed in one piece of metal. l

Figure 2 is a view of the other (corresponding) part of a handle.

Figure 3 is an edge View, showing the knife as in a nished state. l

ais the blade of a knife; c is the handle; c is one part of a'concavo-convex handle, formed in the common Way, and secured to the part c bythe process of brazing or soldering. v

The process of manufacturing these knives or forks is substantially as follows:

A depressed or concave `die is rst made, of the desired size, shape, and pattern, plain or figured, asl desirable,to form the handle c upon the same piece of metal as that which compases thev blade. This dieis secured in a drop or press in thecommon way.` l i The blanks from which the blade a and handle c are formed are cut or formed into the proper shape orsize, then the;I are introduced or subjected (one .at a time) to the action of these dies, whereby aV concave-convex handle is produced upon the same piece of metal ofthe blade. In'othcr words, the process of forming one portion of the handle on the blade is the same as noiv practised in forming concavo-convex handles separate from the blade, except that the rnctal'of the die is cut away to receive the blade at its end, (end of the die.) In this way the knife isstronger and less liable to get loose inthe handle, and I am enabled to produce a cheap, strong, and useful articles of manufacture.

I believe I have thus shown the nature, construction, and advantage of this improvement so as to enable others skilled to make and usc the same therefrom.

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The blade a, and one part of a handle, e, when formed of one piece of metal, substantially as described.

I claim uniting one part of a handle, c', formed in the common lway, to said blade and handle a c, substantially as described.

JOSIAH H. NICHOLS.V [L s] Witnesses HENRY NASH, GEORG A.. HU'BBARD. 

